"Dual cultivation, dual cultivation with me, you promised me that you would dual cultivate with me when I grow up." Qing'er looked at Xie Chen, who was leisurely drinking tea, with resentment.
"When did I say that I would cultivate with you when you grow up? I only said that you can bring up the matter of cultivation with me when you grow up," Xie Chen said without changing his expression.
"Why don't you want to cultivate with me? Am I not pretty?" Qing'er touched her face. Many people said she was very beautiful, and many men were infatuated with her.
"This isn't about whether you're pretty or not. Do you expect me to cultivate with every pretty woman?" Xie Chen asked.
Qing'er imagined that if he were with another woman, no matter how pretty she was, she would be very angry.
"You're not allowed to cultivate with other women, you can only cultivate with me." Qing'er reached out and grabbed Xie Chen's hand, but Xie Chen immediately broke free. Qing'er stared at Xie Chen's handsome face with displeasure, "Don't you like me?"
Xie Chen looked at her without saying a word.
"What's wrong with me? Why don't you like me? What did I do wrong that made you unhappy? I'll change, okay?" Qing'er looked at Xie Chen with a wronged expression.
"What do you like about me? I'll change it, okay?" Xie Chen asked.
Hearing this, Qing'er was furious. She stood up and stomped her foot, causing the ground to crack with spiderweb-like fissures, and the entire palace trembled. "Xie Chen, you're despicable!!"
She stood up, tears glistening in her eyes. Weeping, she transformed into a long, azure rainbow and flew towards the distant, floating immortal mountains.
Xie Chen continued drinking tea. Before long, a white rainbow descended from the sky and landed in front of Xie Chen, transforming into a white-robed, golden-eyed youth. The youth sat down opposite Xie Chen and glared at him angrily: "You bullied Qing'er, you shameless person."
"How did I bully that little girl?"
"She cried, and it's all because you bullied her."
"Let her cry, what does it have to do with me?"
"Why are you unwilling to cultivate with Qing'er?" Feng Chu asked directly.
Xie Chen: "If you're not willing, you're not willing. Why all the 'whys'?"
Feng Chu said, "Didn't you two practice dual cultivation before?"
Xie Chen looked coldly at Feng Chu: "The 'past' you're talking about is more than four trillion years ago. Things that happened back then have nothing to do with us now."
"But she likes you now, so why don't you like her? Is there anything wrong with Qing'er?" Feng Chu asked.
Xie Chen's head throbbed even more as he watched Feng Chu so intently trying to matchmake him with Qing'er. He understood Feng Chu's meaning. This brat just thought that by getting him and Qing'er together, his parents would be happy. But he was himself, Xie Chen, and Qing'er was Qing'er, not Lou Xinyue—that was an unchangeable fact.
"Why do you insist on pairing me with Qing'er as a Daoist couple? Have you ever considered that if I really become a Daoist couple with her, and then have another child, she won't want you anymore?" Xie Chen said.
Feng Chu's face flushed bright red, and he jumped up in a panic: "What nonsense are you talking about? I... I just wanted to help Qing'er, what does that have to do with me? Do you want me or not? No, I care if you want me or not, I..."
Feng Chu was rambling incoherently. With a final stomp of his foot, the boy turned and vanished in a golden flash of lightning.
After Feng Chu left, Xie Chen had two days of peace and quiet. Two days later, Qing'er started bothering him again. Helpless, Xie Chen had no choice but to go into seclusion. He remained in seclusion for ten thousand years. When he emerged, he thought, "Qing'er must be over ten thousand years old now, surely more sensible than before." But when he came out, Qing'er was still the same, always wanting to cultivate with him. Xie Chen had no choice but to continue avoiding her.
So he went into seclusion to cultivate again, this time for three thousand years. Three thousand years later, he quietly emerged from seclusion, quietly left the Sword God Palace, and ran away to a small world, wanting to have a few hundred years of peace and quiet.
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In the misty rain, a man in white was fishing by the river in a small pavilion. He sat in the pavilion, admiring the scenery shrouded in the drizzle, when suddenly he sensed a presence, his expression changed immediately, and he sighed.
A fragrant breeze wafted by, and behind the white-robed man appeared a young girl dressed in a light green dress.
The girl appeared to be around eighteen years old, with stunning beauty. Her long, jet-black hair was loosely tied into a bun, adorned with an orchid-shaped hairpin. Pink gemstone earrings adorned her delicate, fair earlobes, a colorful ribbon tied around her arm, and a thin gold bracelet on her wrist. She smiled as she looked at the cold, stern face of the man in white.
Do you see how unhappy I am?
Xie Chen glanced at Qing'er, then looked away.
He wondered to himself, how did she find her way here?
He didn't tell anyone when he came out of the pass, so how did she know he came out and even find his way here?
"You know I'm unhappy, so why don't you leave?" Xie Chen asked.
Qing'er sat down on the couch by the pavilion railing, glaring angrily at Xie Chen: "Why do you hate me so much? I'm not leaving, I'm not leaving, I'm going to cling to you and make you angry."
Xie Chen: "..."
He couldn't hit or scold Qing'er; he could only tolerate this little devil. He chose to ignore her, letting her get bored and leave on her own.
Xie Chen ignored Qing'er, admiring the scenery and waiting for a fish to bite. Qing'er watched him from the side; neither he nor she spoke. Then, when she saw Xie Chen's fish take the bait, she flicked her finger, the fishing line snapped, and the fish escaped.
"Hahahahahaha..." Qing'er giggled.
Xie Chen: "...Childish."
He wasn't fishing for the fish in the first place. Xie Chen stood up and walked outside.
The rain had stopped, and the sun peeked through the clouds. Xie Chen strolled along the riverbank until he reached the house he had bought in the mortal town. Qing'er began living with him in the mortal town, and at first, the mortals around them were astonished by Qing'er's unparalleled beauty, which caused quite a bit of trouble.
Of course, these troubles were nothing to Qing'er and Xie Chen. Qing'er, who was already over ten thousand years old, was no longer the clueless little girl she once was. Now, even without using her magic, she could handle the mortals here.
Xie Chen fabricated the identity of a doctor for himself, and she told the surrounding neighbors that she was Xie Chen's wife.
Xie Chen didn't bother to argue with her, letting her do as she pleased. Many people in the town had been saved by Xie Chen and always called him a miracle doctor. Now, upon seeing Qing'er, they praised her and Xie Chen as a match made in heaven. Qing'er was even happier to hear this.
Three years have passed in the blink of an eye.
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